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The iRefer DR mobile application from Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas helps nurses, nurse practitioners and physicians quickly refer people to hospice care. The app offers educational resources for patients, as well as details about eligibility and hospice news, and it can be customized and sold to other hospices.

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Nathan Adelson Hospice's Dr. Warren Wheeler is among the palliative care specialists who are to be honored by AAHPM as visionaries in the field. Wheeler, the medical director of palliative medicine at the hospice, was a hospice pioneer in Ohio in the 1970s.

A gastroenterologist who opened a gluten-free bakery in Las Vegas makes cake pops for terminally ill patients. Dr. Michael Zimmerman got the idea after baking a cake for a hospice patient who had not been eating well. The cake pops are an example of the efforts that more than 400 volunteers make for the patients of Nathan Adelson Hospice.

After a pilot initiative, Mango Health is launching its medication management application with a strategic partnership with Target. The app uses game design concepts to help users follow their medical regimens and gives them rewards for doing so successfully. It also allows them to look at drug and food interactions.

A review of 69 published studies indicates that advanced practice nurses, such as nurse practitioners, reach care outcomes equal to or better than those of physicians. The study "reinforces that APRNs provide effective, high-quality patient care and play an important role in improving the quality of care in the United States," researchers wrote in Nursing Economics.

Many hospitals and health systems are adopting nurse residency programs in an effort to reduce medical errors and increase the confidence of new nurses. Las Vegas-based Valley Health System achieved a 100% retention rate for new nurses in the third year of its nurse residency program.